I’ve only just installed and started using the new version, but I love it. Especially that it’s in it’s own window instead of just another tab in the browser window. Kudos!
> On Jan 21, 2021, at 12:29 PM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > > Hi > > On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 at 16:01, richard coleman <rcoleman.ascen...@gmail.com > <mailto:rcoleman.ascen...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Dave, > > Sounds promising, can the new beta be installed alongside the existing > version? > > Only on macOS, due to the way appbundles work. > > > Thanks, > > rik. > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:56 AM Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org > <mailto:dp...@pgadmin.org>> wrote: > All, > > As you know, when run in Desktop mode, pgAdmin 4 uses a server process which > runs all the time and opens a browser window to display the UI. Very early > versions used a Qt based runtime that integrated the browser and server which > gave a much more "normal" application feel, but unfortunately we found that > the Qt browser components had performance issues. > > We've been working on a new runtime (based on NWjs, similar to Electron) to > allow us to get rid of the separate server process, and I'm please to offer > builds for testing at: > > https://developer.pgadmin.org/builds/nwjs-2021-01-21-1/ > <https://developer.pgadmin.org/builds/nwjs-2021-01-21-1/> > > There you'll find an installer for 64 bit Windows, a DMG for macOS, and RPM > and DEB packages for Fedora 31, 32 & 33, RHEL/CentOS 7 & 8, Debian 9, 10 & 11 > and Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 20.10. > > These builds are based on development code currently in git that will be > released as v4.30 next week. This includes phase 1 of our Kerberos support > (for logging into pgAdmin, but *not* the database servers), and the new ERD > tool. This code is still going through QA and final improvement, so please > bear that in mind. > > We're aiming to release v5.0 of pgAdmin 4 in late February, based on the new > runtime, so would appreciate as much help and feedback as we can get prior to > the release. > > Whilst I'm writing, I'd also like to give an update on platform support > changes; > > - As previously noted in release announcements, Windows 32 bit builds are > deprecated. v4.29 will be the last 32 bit Windows build supported. > > - Canonical have dropped support for Ubuntu 19.10, and now removed all of the > packages repositories. We have therefore had to drop support for it as well; > the last supported version of pgAdmin on Ubuntu 19.10 will be v4.29. > > - Due to the age of the Python version it ships with, we've had to stop > producing builds for Ubuntu 16.04 (some of the security related Python > modules are no longer supported on older Python versions). v4.30 will be the > last version supported on Ubuntu 16.04. > > - Builds for Ubuntu 20.10 and Debian 11 (Bullseye/testing) have been added > for the v4.30 release onwards. > > Thank you! > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com <http://pgsnake.blogspot.com/> > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com <http://www.enterprisedb.com/> > > -- > -- > Dave Page > https://pgsnake.blogspot.com <https://pgsnake.blogspot.com/> > > EDB Postgres > https://www.enterprisedb.com <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
